The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

Different blends of those two proteins alongside many other combinations of mutations elsewhere in the virus can affect how sick people and animals get and how it spreads. H5N1 has been the ...

Growing concerns over pet food safety A surge in H5N1 virus cases among pets, particularly cats, has raised alarms about raw ...

"This type of prevention can be very useful in controlling infection outbreaks and containing the bird flu pandemic," said an immunologist.

A prophylactic antibody-based immune therapy protects monkeys against severe disease caused by H5N1 avian flu, University of ...

To learn more about the recent bird flu outbreaks, we spoke with Asha Shah, MD, director of infectious diseases and ...

If bird flu is lurking undetected on Minnesota’s dairy farms, the state is determined to find it. Starting in February, milk ...

“No doubt that human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A, H5N1 virus that primarily causes bird flu, has a high potential for severe respiratory infection as well as high ...

All nine macaques given the control developed severe disease when exposed to bird flu, as did all given the smallest dose of ...

That message was delivered Wednesday during a virtual update from state health officials on the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus. Officials are waiting for test results from a few ...

A new strain of bird flu — H5N9 — has been detected in California’s Merced County at a commercial duck operation. According to the World Organization for Animal Health — an international ...

The antibody targets a stable part of the bird flu virus, ensuring that the immune protection can resist new variants and offer long-term protection against the globally spreading airborne infection.